All Time Best Summer Movies

[Kensterberg]

OK, I can't be too harsh about childhood cinema, as I still watch cheezy old Godzilla movies for the same reason when I see 'em on Sci-Fi or something. Same with those old Spaghetti Westerns that Clint Eastwood used to make.

Prince's Purple Rain would be another big summer movie memory of mine. Came out the summer after my freshman year of college ... we went to it on opening day, and then the theater I worked at played it starting about a month later. Must've seen it like 20 times or something ... not entirely willingly after about the 7th time.

[luke]

I love old Godzilla movies. And Godzilla 1985 was the last great one.

The special effects in Jurassic Park didn't do much for me as a kid. I liked the more wicked nature of the characters in the book, and how you wanted them to get eaten, and for the most part, they did. But then, I was always more into seeing blood and guts than somebody trying to woo me into being awe-inspired. Especially at that age.

[Adam]

1. Star Wars films
2. Indiana Jones trilogy
3. E.T.
4. Jaws
5. Back To the Future
6. Terminator 2
7. Batman
8. The Rock
9. True Lies
10. Pixar films (Toy Story 1 & 2, The Incredibles, Monsters Inc.)
11. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
12. Ghostbusters

[Kensterberg]

That list is awfully hard to argue with, Adam. Well, except for The Rock.

[frag]

I loved Jurassic Park when I was little. I was 10 when it was first released, and like Ken, I had an obsession (as all boys do, don't they?) with dinosaurs. So seeing them so life-like was indeed awesome. But as I grow older, every time I watch the movie, I hate it more and more. The last time I watched it, I did a bunch of blowSkittles and noticed that at the end, when the t-rex comes in to save the day from the raptors, there's no sound indicating his entrance. When before, in a wide-open space they could hear his steps from far far away, now they can't hear him in this enclosed building?
That and Jeff Goldblum repeated the "must go faster" bit in their jeep again in Indepence Day, when he and Mr. Smith are in the mother ship, barely escaping.

I just saw X-Men 3. It was very very boring. Not a very good summer movie. I never saw the other two, but I tried to watch the first one. It too was very boring, and I was never able to finish it. I can assume now that it was for the better.

[wowposter]

[spam-B-gone!]